Tuesday, October 6
I did not post to this blog yesterday because I shot 5 rolls of b+w film with my Mamiya of A-bombed trees and buildings - a perfect flat light / overcast day with a cool breeze....walked 6 hours straight, exhausted - only enough energy to post umpteen photos to instagram > facebook. But today I must post because it was a full, busy and inspiring day.
To be awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, a Japanese institution had to apply for / invite me. As a result, I am a visiting scholar at the Hiroshima City University, a 20 minute bus ride out of town on top of a beautiful hill....
These are "3M steps" - concrete stairs covered with this aerial picture....
These are shattered A-bombed roof tiles. I had planned to use them somehow but between 2010 and now, someone shattered them all. I will make cynaotypes with the fragments.....
An undergraduate woman in the wood shop area. Students use an axe to make an axe. They make the axe with a slightly curved handle and they forge the blade.....amazing
Japan makes the most amazing posters and graphic design pamphlets....
A student's project, birdhead made out of gloves
Charlie Worthen's drawing made from exacto blades
A blossfeldt poster - so many amazing shows NOT in Hiroshima....
A graduate student's blue legs sculpture, a prototype or work in progress:
This little statue stands in a studio....
Traditional sculptures made by undergraduates. They learn craft and skill and form and technique first.
Outside the wood shop....
A bucket of water near the forge area
Old sculptures by faculty and students
A sign at the Bus Center in downtown Hiroshima...
A view from the bus on the way into Hiroshima:
Cai Go Qing (sp?) poster at HCU:
A model of the Peace Park Cenotaph with another figurative sculpture:
Charlie's studio wall
Some of Charlie's 3D rendered prototypes for sculptures:
I could not believe that the darkroom sink is like our new kitchen countertops!!!!!!! This is where I will coat my cynaotype paper.....
Have you ever heard of Dazzle Camoflauge? It is a real thing that they tried during WWII. Charlie told me about it and pulled this image up online:
An undergraduate with his Dollok drawing (from Dr. Who - not sure if I am spelling Dollok correctly)
downtown Hiroshima - random door
an undergraduate drawing that reminded me of Odilon redon:
detail of poster
forging area
garlic in the international student room/studio
hand soap dispenser - love this so much - very bauhaus
student heads:
This years HIROSHIMA APPEALS Poster. I got one!!!!
Student work in progress:
A student's lemon made out of wood:
Student made hammers next to a store-bought axe - notice the curve of their handles - a requirement
student head out of wood
grad student photo poster
World Friendship Center map with pins at places that guests come from in Europe:
and from Asia:
leaving my "villa" this morning = going down the stairs
posters at Hiroshima City University > HCU - i got one of these too:
Pillow at HCU
Charlie's pieces:
Poster -
Found drawing with red hose:
poster:
Faculty sculpture:
student sculpture:
Students who got married - goofing off on their wedding day. Notice her amazing hat / headdress
studio detail
work in progress by a grad student
tree near my home
tarp and plants outside wood shop
the metal shop tech!
traditional paper from Tokyo:
outdoor stairwell at HCU
view!!!!!!!!!
wood shop - undergrad:
circle of freshman working on their axes
Absolutely uncanny surreal lucky coincidental to be a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild and there to be an exhibition of us at the A-bombed Bank in downtown Hiroshima right after I get here - opened today - in the same building where I did rubbings and made photographs and had a solo show a few years ago. I have spent more time in this building than anywhere else in Hiroshima. LOVE the banner that greets you as you approach the building:
Not Edgerton's rapatronic photograph of the A-bomb test in the American southwest, but an image by Berlyn Brixner:
Patrick Nagatani's Nuclear Enchantment:
Bizarre to see a photo of ME and a print out of my cyanotype on the old bank counter - one that I once did a rubbing of for a contact print.....
Bamboo orb
coordinated of nuclear tragedies crimes accidents...chernobyl fukushima three mile island hiroshima....
a protest in russia / eastern europe against nuclear power and weapons - correction, thanks Bob Del Tredici:
Kazakhstan, outside the town of Karoul, on the edge of the Semipalatinsk test site. They are protesting nuclear testing (not commercial power). Their protests (over the years) were successful when Gorbachev ended Soviet nuclear testing soon after this photo was taken in 1991.
Jessi Boylan's photograph from Australia - next to my work....
A high school teacher's driftwood sculpture of the Trinity Site Marker:
This young man made this replica of the A-Bomb Peace Dome out of CORK!!!!!!
Am A-bombed railroad stone painted with the topography of the rivers in Hiroshima and "black rain":
Sadako Sasaki's parents (Sadako is the girl who died of leukemia after folding over 1,000 paper cranes)
Enola Gay
A boat in a field of onions in Fukushima:
Replicas of Little Boy and Fat Man - love this photo by Robert DelTredici - a founder of the APG - where the gloves become the arms of the bomb:
A notebook full of exposures to radiation, notes, by/of a man who died of it
the banner looking out into the city/sky
Julia in Belarus with a map of the area contaminated by Chernobyl
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